Ravenna Festival
Corou de Berra
LA GUERRA DI PIERO
Corou de Berra
Michel Bianco, Massimo Rosadi, Françoise Marchetti,
Claudia Musso, Joris Barcaroli
conductor Michel Bianco
Corou De Berra hails from Berra, a place in the southern French Alps with an ancient Italian name. In almost 30 years of activity, the choir has complemented the usual multilingualism of border territories with a peculiar vocal style influenced by the musical tradition of the Southern Alps. War echoes in their songs: from De André’s Guerra di Piero to an Occitan version of Bella Ciao (translated by poet Alain Pelhon from the Italian original); from an arrangement of Pietro Gori’s Addio Lugano bella by the partisans of the Roya Valley to Non non plus de combats, the song of the poilus (an informal term for French WWI infantrymen). The language of the County of Nice will be heard alongside the Occitan of Frédéric Mistral, whose poetry provided a model for the bard of Romagna’s cultural identity, Aldo Spallicci.
